{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6475d2ecdc5ca00010f3bc5f/65254e7816a4770011d1f967?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"RTÉ's Ken O'Shea on his love of long-distance swimming","description":"<p>CORK journalist Ken O’Shea is an executive producer in RTÉ … but he’s also a fairly impressive hobby swimmer.</p><p>Ken is also the first man to ever swim from the Fastnet Rock to Crookhaven, having always harboured a dream of swimming up the channel between the Alderman Rocks and Rock Island, and walk up the steps at the pier into O’Sullivans for a pint!</p><p>He did just that, and a lot more, in his relatively recent sea swimming endeavours.</p><p>He told podcast presenter Siobhán Cronin all about it, on a zoom call from his Dublin home.</p><p>This episode was produced and presented by Siobhán Cronin, with editing by Tony O'Shaughnessy.</p><p>***</p><p>Thanks for listening to&nbsp;<em>The Southern Star</em>'s From A to Sea Podcast. Please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.</p><p>Listen to our previous episodes&nbsp;<a href=\"http://southernstar.ie/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">by clicking here.</a></p><p>For stories like this and more, pick up a copy of this week's Southern Star or subscribe online via&nbsp;<a href=\"http://subscribe.southernstar.ie/plans\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.southernstar.ie/epaper.</a></p>","author_name":"The Southern Star"}